All, At this Thursday's reading group (noon to 1pm on April 10th), we'll talk about virtualization of machines for research and instruction/education.
Dav Clark of the D-Lab, which maintains Collaboratool / Berkeley Computational Environment <http://collaboratool.berkeley.edu> -- compute environments for portable, reproducible data science -- will kick off discussion that will also include Ben Gross of IST-EIS (Endpoint Engineering and Infrastructure). We hope that Owen McGrath of ETS (Educational Technology Services) will also be able to join us. Short readings are: About Collaboratool <http://collaboratool.berkeley.edu/meta-features.html>("meta-features") About Docker <https://www.docker.io/learn_more/> -- Docker is software that permits applications to run in a container that can itself be reproduced and run on any of multiple machines & platforms A use case describing how Docker has been applied in a higher-ed instructional context<http://blog.docker.io/2014/04/docker-in-education-interview/> About Packer <http://www.packer.io/intro> -- Packer is a tool for creating machine images -- please read the four short "About" section pages starting with the linked page, http://www.packer.io/intro See you Thursday at noon in Rm 200C, Warren Hall... ~Steve -- Steve Masover IST Research Information Technologies maso...@berkeley.edu 510-642-8488
